Las Vegas hotels literally on fire

October 02, 2008

Guests had to recently flee three of the Bellagio casino resort’s floors during the early hours of the morning, due to a mattress fire where a man was burnt and numerous guests suffered from inhaling the smoke. Sprinklers at the Las Vegas hotel contained the fire to just one hotel room on the 26th floor, but the fire chief for Clark County, Steve Smith, says that other areas of the Las Vegas accommodation were also severely damaged by the water and smoke.

Scott Allison, a fire spokesperson, says that the hotel guest who was staying in the room that the fire started in was burnt on his arm and transported to hospital. None of the firefighters were injured during the fire, but the many hotel guests who were suffering from smoke inhalation had to be medically treated.

Cleaning crews got to work as guests were cleared from the hotel, and a spokesperson from MGM Mirage Inc, the company that owns the hotel in Las Vegas, Gordon Absher, says that some guests staying on the 25th and 27th hotel floors asked to be evacuated as well.

Officials from the Las Vegas hotel as well as from the fire department say that the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and Allison says that officials from the fire department had also been investigating another fire the previous evening, located at the Venetian hotel-casino. Both of these Las Vegas hotels are situated on the Las Vegas strip, which may have put a damper on the previous night’s winnings for those affected by it. Allison says that a stack of sizeable air filters somehow caught on fire, but that the flames were quickly put out by the hotel sprinklers. On the plus side, nobody is on record has having been injured in this fire.